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Celebrities › Re: Isabella Idibia Goes To Secondary School, Bags Many Awards by theoldpretender(m): 2:01pm On Jul 18, 2018

Malawian:
I got into Secondary school at age 9,finished at age 16, then spent 4-5 years writing JAMB. in fact at a point,my mum rather than introduce me to her friends with my real name will tell them "ona eche Jamb"

Sorry about that

In my opinion, better to enter secondary school at 12 or 13. (I entered at 11).

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Celebrities › Re: Isabella Idibia Goes To Secondary School, Bags Many Awards by theoldpretender(m): 2:00pm On Jul 18, 2018

Lilcentt:
And you that finished class 6, is that how were taught to comprehend a good sentence?
"went to sec school" or "go to sec school"

Much obliged for the correction.

Celebrities › Re: Isabella Idibia Goes To Secondary School, Bags Many Awards by theoldpretender(m): 12:55pm On Jul 18, 2018*

She is too young for secondary school at 9.

Better she did class 6 and then went to sec school

Modification: I am making this comment not out of malice, but out of the idea that an eight year old cannot handle the rigors of a JSS 1 syllabus...without much support.

I entered secondary school at eleven. In my opinion, I should have entered at twelve.

Anyway, that is life. Some kids are adults by six, some are babies at sixty.

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Crime › Re: Recovered Bodies Of Policemen In Kaduna Spark Protest by theoldpretender(m): 11:46am On Jul 18, 2018

Sall:
Am not surprise you wrote all this when it actually obvious you are a police man yourself.

Sorry darling, I'm not in the force.(And it is the truth).

Crime › Re: Recovered Bodies Of Policemen In Kaduna Spark Protest by theoldpretender(m): 10:58am On Jul 18, 2018

onyxo76:
[i]So when you need someone to regulate traffic in your environment, who do you call?
maybe this is the only functional unit, the rest points you mentioned are non existent, when last did you call police and they responded during an armed robbery attack ,maybe they will arrive 2 hours later when the robbers will be 100 miles away .

Probabaly

But as I said..the whole Fulani farmer thing started because one Fulani's cow died or one farmer's crops were eaten...and instead of calling the police, Fulanis and Farmers declared that the police were incompetent, and decided that they would handle the case ourselves.

And many lost souls later...see where we are.

I know the Police is ineffective, but it needs reform, not our continued hatred.

Jokes Etc › Re: First Time I Experienced My Village People Following Me by theoldpretender(m): 10:55am On Jul 18, 2018

Randy91:
hahahahaahahahhahaha....

This also reminds me my UNI days...one of my jaiyé-jaiyé course mate then was on top of a gal wen he was called exam has started...d guy entered exam hall smelling sperm and looking like a mad man

cc:lefulefu

That one, na im village people, plus the girl's own, plus the ancestor's own wey dey on im case well well.

Jokes Etc › Re: First Time I Experienced My Village People Following Me by theoldpretender(m): 10:54am On Jul 18, 2018

Back when I was a student, I had a nightmare before one of my exams....that I was late by two hours.

Come dey wake up, see it is still 4 am...

Me: Abeg why you dey fear, fear, see this silly dream wey I come have, abeg, make I sleep some more now!

(I passed the course, and was on time self)

Crime › Re: Recovered Bodies Of Policemen In Kaduna Spark Protest by theoldpretender(m): 10:49am On Jul 18, 2018

abumeinben:
Buhari... haven't ever heard of police protest before...

Corruption fighting does not call for the abandonment of basic responsibilities. Why?

You haven't lived in Nigeria then.

Police have been protesting in Nigeria since...at least 2001...when many of the lower ranks went on a strike that lasted one day, but led to Obasanjo rasing salaries (while the ringleaders were quetly dismissed and punished).

Crime › Re: Recovered Bodies Of Policemen In Kaduna Spark Protest by theoldpretender(m): 10:45am On Jul 18, 2018

Sall:
who deh pity for them policemen . serve them right.
Only feel for the innocent civilians who are once again a victim.

So when thief comes in the night...who are you going to call?

So when yahoo boy defrauds you of your money, who do you call?

So when someone you know is found dead, victim of crime, who do you call?

So when you need someone to regulate traffic in your environment, who do you call?

So when it is time for disputes, who do you call?

You know...this whole Fulani farmer issue started because Fulanis and Farmers had the same idea you are espousing. And now, we live with the results.

Don't be like a violent herdsman, appreciate your poilce...except for the bad eggs.

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Politics › Re: Metering: You’re Wrong, Power Distributors Reply Fashola by theoldpretender(m): 10:34am On Jul 18, 2018

HomeOfMe:
That is one of the reasons power situation has not changed because people have several alternatives like solar,inverter and generator. The day I visited my brother at Abujai was watching my favorite tv program,suddenly the logo just went off for about five seconds and came back again. I asked him what happened to the light,he said that nepa just took the light and automatically came on. People like him won't even bother to say he wants to go and protests on the streets for lack of electricity because he has several alternatives.

Good point.

But your brother is not doing anything wrong. It is going to take time to fix power in this country, and in the meantime,people still have to live and do things.

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Politics › Re: Metering: You’re Wrong, Power Distributors Reply Fashola by theoldpretender(m): 10:33am On Jul 18, 2018

kitaatita:
Another vampire cabal has been created after fuel importers. The DISCOS want Nigerians to pay for darkness and refuse to buy electricity from the generating companies.

Even if DISCOS accept all the power the GENCOS send (and with them being owed N1.3 trillion by Nigerians, rich and poor...that is a big ask)...5000 MW (on a good day) cannot give the whole country 24 hours supply on a daily basis.

We need probably something like 80000MW. And that is why we have to eventually pay higher bills, or get another loan..so that we have the cash to expand power in Nigeria .

(According to the experts...we need $900bn over 30 years to fix power..ie $30 bn every year for 30 years.).

Politics › Re: Metering: You’re Wrong, Power Distributors Reply Fashola by theoldpretender(m): 10:28am On Jul 18, 2018

IBBG:
the biggest mistake jonathan made was privatizing PHCN to our local investors. They are bunch of very useless investors.

If GEJ had left the status quo ante to stand....the same problems would still be there.

Infact, we need trillions of naira to fix power. With a budget less than 10 trillion naira...are you ready to spend half just on power?

The idea behind the DISCOS was that it would be like GSM...let the private companies do their thing, and money flows in and as a result things improve. Problems started when lenders refused to lend to the DISCOS....

Politics › Re: Metering: You’re Wrong, Power Distributors Reply Fashola by theoldpretender(m): 10:24am On Jul 18, 2018

Hmm...here comes Old Pretender, the CEO of DMC (Discos Media Crew) here to defend opression and illegality for the paltry sum of N0
(Man, I'm so heartless... cool

)

1.On the statement by Fashola that the Discos were responsible for the provision of meters, the power firms argued that at the 18th monthly power sector and stakeholders’ meeting on August 14, 2017, the minister stated that the supply of meters to electricity customers was not the exclusive to the Discos.

The firms stated, “This is a contradiction of his convenient assertion now that customers with no meters should turn to the Discos. The metering gap, a major concern for our customers and us, unfortunately, has become a politicised issue. As a means of tracking and accounting for our revenues, there is no greater interested party in comprehensive metering than the Discos.

Well, basically, this just throws in more confusion. Who is responsible for PREPAID METERS...Disco, government, thrid parties, or Bueller?

2.They stated that the only product that the Discos were selling to make a revenue was electricity, and the only reason a Disco would not take more energy was due to the impact of the revenue shortfall in the industry, which limits the available capital available to invest to take the power

In plain, simple English....if a DISCO takes more energy, they would be chronically running at a loss. (That's why eventually we would have to increase bills even if we ALL get meters).

3[i].They also faulted claims that the Transmission Company of Nigeria currently had capacity to wheel over 5,000MW, stressing that in spite of the TCN’s tested wheeling capacity of 5,500MW, with the two historical generation peaks of 5,074MW recorded on February 2, 2016, and 5,222MW on December 18, 2017, only 4,577MW and 4,265MW were wheeled or transmitted, respectively.

“In simple terms, the TCN has not wheeled energy in excess of 4,265MW ever,” the firms added.
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Posted for facts and also to point out that our power supply is not just a generation issues...WE have to FIX and expand our transmission system! (And you cant do that on bills of less than $6 every 2 months via meter).

4.On the assertion by the government on the reconciliation of some of the electricity debts that it owes, the Discos described this as troubling.

They said their position was in the light of the fact that the government continued to owe them for energy that it consumes, adding that the debt had continued to grow, “contributing to a market shortfall that is estimated to be in excess of N1.3tn on the Discos’ books.”

We owe the DISCOS N1.3 trillion naira.....1.3 trillion naira.

And we expect them to supply electricity with a debt being owed them of 1.3 tr naira

(Average Nigerian would just say that it is a lie sans proof, or that we should just take another loan,or ust use the loot...and anyway, that just pays the debt....till the next one is incurred.).

Let's face the facts...them DISCOS are not perfect. But you cannot expect them to give N2 million effort on just N20000. And you cannot be calling DISCOS liars about their debt....while then chasing your debtors in your businesses and lives.

Fixing power is going to cost lots of money. Either we pay....or we just sell ourselves as slaves to the IMF and World Bank for centuries in the name of light.(Oil won't help us at all till it reaches $140 per barrel.).

Oya,make I go colelct my N0 for being a good slave to master DISCO....whose offices I don't know, and who I had issues with over a meter they were supposed to provide to my previous residence, as well as their estimated billing. But despite that...we too have our own part in this mess, and we refuse to face up to that.

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Properties › Re: FG Pushes For Lower Cement Price, Adoption Of Concrete Roads by theoldpretender(m): 7:40am On Jul 18, 2018

The only way you can reduce cement price is by encouraging more cement manufacturers to come into the fray...which means reduced prices.

You also have a plan to improve transport, power and water supply/infrastructure.

OR....you do like we have been doing for petrol, and throw billions of naira into a bottomless pit in the name of cement subsidy.

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Nairaland General › Re: Huge Python Killed In Ibafo, Ogun Behind A Church (Photos) by theoldpretender(m): 9:27pm On Jul 17, 2018

Singing lalala

Foreign Affairs › Re: Meet Jakov Kitarović, Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović's Husband by theoldpretender(m): 2:34pm On Jul 17, 2018

Beremx:
Fine woman.

I wonder when Nigeria is going to have a female president. I just dey wonder!

When we Nigerians are going to be courageous enough to vote for one.

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Career › Re: Online Publications Taking Our Jobs – Bauchi Newspaper Vendors by theoldpretender(m): 1:55pm On Jul 17, 2018

Well, this is bad news also for newspapers too

Fewer people buying newspapers means.reduced income

Then you will start seeing Vanguard, Punch, Trust and others charging you 10000 naira subscription to read their online versions.

Buy a paper from your vendor today if you don't want that to happen

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Sports › Re: N´Golo Kanté And The Mini Cooper S Car He Drives (PHOTO) by theoldpretender(m): 11:17am On Jul 17, 2018

stefanweeks:
"According to him, his plan when he arrived England was to[b] run to training everyday[/b]."

Hard man

When Kante was discovered by Lecister,he was playing in the French third division.

Of course, he knew that joining a first division club= him working hard to break into the team

As Sam Kuffor said 'When I arrived at Bayern, there were five players ahead ofme in my position, including German internationals. I knew I had to work hard.'

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Crime › Re: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: My Great-Grandfather, Nigerian Slave-Trader - New Yorker by theoldpretender(m): 8:18pm On Jul 16, 2018

Bsuedu:
Yes, things were really bad. Jim Crow South ( Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama) was about as worse as it could get. My grandmother told me about the Klan riding up and taking men out to be hung. My mom wasnt allowed to go to school and had to drink out of designated water fountains. My parents also talked about havin to ride in the back of the bus.
But thanks to their perserverance, determination, and hard work, my family are able to have a good life now.

Nice to hear.

Black American history is sad but inspiring at the same time

Crime › Re: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: My Great-Grandfather, Nigerian Slave-Trader - New Yorker by theoldpretender(m): 4:16pm On Jul 16, 2018

emmyid:
Brazil feature blacks in some. You should see the series "City of Men".

Or an old one...Isaura the Slave girl (popular in Nigeria in the 90's)

Crime › Re: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: My Great-Grandfather, Nigerian Slave-Trader - New Yorker by theoldpretender(m): 2:21pm On Jul 16, 2018

musicwriter:
If someone ''could own land, property and could also become integrated members of the community'' then he/she wasn't a slave in the same way we have come to know slavery. In Africa, till today, there exists what we call apprenticeship, whereby people serve under a master, and this's an old practice. It is not called slavery.

Yes, there were captives held as prisoners of war and probably looked down upon in society, but that was all there's to that. They were not ''traded'' as commodity from a seller to a buyer.

Its interesting you mentioned Arabs. Both the Arabs and Europeans brought these practices to us when our lands were invaded. There were no ''buying and selling'' of human beings among Africans before the arrival of either the Arabs or Europeans. The slavery I am talking about is buying and selling of human beings before the arrival of the Arabs and Europeans. That's what I want to know. How did Africans buy and sell slaves before the arrival of the Arabs and Europeans? To whom did we sell the slaves to? That's what I want to know.

Quickly answering....Africans did buy and sell slaves to themselves. Slaves were war captives, or even people expelled from their communities.
The Europeans and Arabs were just another market.

To use a "poor' example....a certain Nigerian was kidnapped in the late 19th century...from what is now Kogi state,and sold off somewhere to an 'owner' in what is NOW oyo state. He was a slave for 20 years, before he got free, converted to Chirstianity., and returned home to preach to his people. (He eventually went on to work with..not for... a white missionary as a preacher ).

On a side note...we did have some forms of currency before the Europeans....gold, manillas,cowries, etc.

Crime › Re: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: My Great-Grandfather, Nigerian Slave-Trader - New Yorker by theoldpretender(m): 1:52pm On Jul 16, 2018

flyca:
Africans were the ones that went to villages and farms to capture fellow Africans and sold to white people! For money and for fame!

Blame Africans for slavery. The white men were simply merchants!

Great oral traditon by the way, and great article too.

Good point...but it should be noted that most every human culture and race from the dawn of time practiced slavery.

Crime › Re: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: My Great-Grandfather, Nigerian Slave-Trader - New Yorker by theoldpretender(m): 1:48pm On Jul 16, 2018

ELKHALIFAISIS:
my great grandpa really fvckup he would have give up and allow slave sellers to capture them... I would by now be a black America or black Australian... what use am I been a Nigerian abeg make them come sell me to New Zealand this Nigeria don tire me under sai Barber terrorist

If your great grandad had been caught as a slave...God forbid

1.You might have not existed because he would have died in the ship enroute to the Americas.

2.Most slaves ended up in what is now South America. Millions did end up in North America.

3.If your grandad ended up in South America...chances are you would be living in a favella...where life is just as cheap as it is in Nigeria (Police brutality, violent drug gangs, etc).

4.If your grandad ended up in US or Canada....good. You have a high chance of living in a violent, drug ridden, gang ridden neighbourhood. And most blacks are victims of crime...commited by other blacks.

5.There is also a chance you might end up living in a higher level of life...if your ancestor got educated...or played sports brilliantly..

6.Is it worth allowing your ancestors suffer years of discrimination, often violent, just so that you can call yourself an American.

7. Black slaves were never sent to Australia. (The black Australian or Aboriginie is the original owner of that land. There are Africans there...but those are recent legal immigrants. Plus, Australia had a No Black Immigrant policy till 1968).

8. ThaNK God your ancestors were not sent to Argentina...to be used as cannon fodder in the wars of independence that wracked Argentina in the 19th century. Most blacks died in those wars...that, and massive whites only immigration, is why Argentina has less than 100000 black people.(once upon a time it was half the populaiton).

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Crime › Re: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: My Great-Grandfather, Nigerian Slave-Trader - New Yorker by theoldpretender(m): 1:39pm On Jul 16, 2018

GreenArrow1:
Yeah, things have got better and will keep improving for the black man in America no matter how rough their past has been. They' expectations fought for change since coming off the slave ships and they' expectations gotten results. Same cannot be said of the black man in Africa nay Nigeria. In Nigeria today, anything, I mean ANYTHING can kill you. Make no mistake about it, this is a shît-hole.

The black man in North America...the US and Canada ...still does have some issues with racisim (eg racial profiling, bad police treatment, poor schools, etc) but things as I said are better than they were in say the 1930's (when blacks could be lynched for flimsy reasons).

I should add that when I say things are better.....I usually throw in a lot of caveats. But that one na another long tori.

South America and Central America...hmm. In the US...you can see black faces on US TV shows. On telenovelas from South American countries with a large black population...zero (Even PLACES LIKE BRAZIL!)

Crime › Re: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: My Great-Grandfather, Nigerian Slave-Trader - New Yorker by theoldpretender(m): 1:34pm On Jul 16, 2018

musicwriter:
Whoever wrote this have his her brain damaged. Slavery happened by coercion, kidnapping, war. If your ancestors participated in it that was because he was coerced to do what he didn't like in order to save his kingdom from invasion or to save his business. Our kings were given such conditions- to choose between their lives or be part of slavery. Of course, many chose to die fighting against it.

Anybody who knows this fellow should ask him/her; how many slaves did your ancestor sell before the arrival of the Europeans? To whom?

Anybody interested should see the true history of slavery and slave acquisition in Africa http://www.africason.com/2016/03/the-true-history-of-slavery-and-slave.html

Africans kept slaves long before the whites came in.

One of the earliest archeologic discoveries in Nigeria is the tomb of an Igbo king...who was buried around 900CE. He was buried...with lots of his slaves.

There was also the story of an Igala princess, who sacrified herself by being buried alive...so that her father could win a war...with her slaves.

Selling slaves was just a means of getting revenues to among other things....defend African empires and territories.

(Note...we Africans did not live in nice peaceful territories...we fought wars well well).

We also sold slaves to the Arabs too by the way...and Arabs too led slave raids.

The difference between African and American slavery...slaves in Africa could own land, property and could also becomeintegrated members of the community. But....second class. And they could be freed too.

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Crime › Re: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: My Great-Grandfather, Nigerian Slave-Trader - New Yorker by theoldpretender(m): 1:28pm On Jul 16, 2018

GreenArrow1:
So the great grandfather could not locate and sell my village so that I'd be born outside of this poo-hole of a country? In the words of Eddie Griffin regarding the slave trade era and the reality now, "It started out bad, but it' small good now (mostly).”

Things are good for black Americans now...but up till the 1980's...it could be bad. And I mean bad .

(Back in 1970's, me dad had a chance to study in US. Stories of violent racisim prevented him from taking up the offer...though he went to the UK instead).

Blacks in America were subject to severe mistreatment. In 1964...a black maid was shot dead while going home from work by a gang of whites. No one has been prosecuted for the crime.

The reason why things have been better for blacks. Civil right fighters...and many of them suffered. MLK was shot dead, another one was shot dead changing the tire in front of his house, some were brutally beaten up (one black civil rights worker was beaten up and as a result was ill for three years), and some even had their neighbourhoods destroyed.

Blacks got the worst in schools, living areas, etc. Segregration, unjust violence, etc.

Things are better (they even elected a black President...and lots of black leaders)...but behind that is a lot of suffering.

As for the slave trade, a high percentage of slaves died before they reached the Americas. And MOST slaves got sent to South America and the Carribean...where life too was no better.(and even today, there is still marked discriminaiton, though things too are improiving).

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Crime › Re: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: My Great-Grandfather, Nigerian Slave-Trader - New Yorker by theoldpretender(m): 1:19pm On Jul 16, 2018

This article I like...HISTORICAL ARTICLES...

Not some trash about what some no name musician's wife's brother's girlfriend is up to....

Interesting bit....was the fact the author's dad did not blame his ancestor for being a slave dealer....after all, he may have done bad things, but he was still his ancestor.

Sometimes, I feel that one or two of my ancestors (I don't know) might have been into slavery. I knows I would feel ashamed if i found out.

This is PREMIUM front page material, Thanks.

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Crime › Re: Father Burns His 8-Year-Old Daughter's Hand For Stealing In Kaduna (Graphic Pic) by theoldpretender(m): 12:49pm On Jul 16, 2018

Benblaq:
Sense of humor 0%

Thanks for the marks. I like it.

Crime › Re: Father Burns His 8-Year-Old Daughter's Hand For Stealing In Kaduna (Graphic Pic) by theoldpretender(m): 12:48pm On Jul 16, 2018

Juliusmalema:
lolzzz....

go to sokoto state and ask them the meaning of VVF(vesico vagina fistula)......then come back for reply.

Also exists in the South East too....there is a VVF hosptial there...and it does not attend to Hausas...that is where the Sokoto hospitalcomes in.

Bad things exist everywhere....including child abuse.

First case of child abuse I saw was in the South East. It does not mean i think all SOuth Eastrerners are child abusers...that's irraitonal thinking.

Crime › Re: Father Burns His 8-Year-Old Daughter's Hand For Stealing In Kaduna (Graphic Pic) by theoldpretender(m): 12:44pm On Jul 16, 2018

Juliusmalema:
Only in kaduna and northern states will u hear such.

And it is only in the South East that pregancy in the teenage years is a profitable venture.

In the South West...rituals

Crime › Re: Father Burns His 8-Year-Old Daughter's Hand For Stealing In Kaduna (Graphic Pic) by theoldpretender(m): 12:41pm On Jul 16, 2018

Benblaq:
Bible said "FEAR NORTH"

Didn't you see...there was NO NAME GIVEN!

How can you make bricks without cement?

Plus...is the girl Assyrian, Greek, Persian or Chaldean? (That's the North refered to in the Bible. And Assyrians still exist by the way)

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Crime › Re: Father Burns His 8-Year-Old Daughter's Hand For Stealing In Kaduna (Graphic Pic) by theoldpretender(m): 12:39pm On Jul 16, 2018

1. What...no names! NCAN sorry!No market.

2.Hand is healing well, from the last photo.Hopefully.

3.Wonder what happens to the girl next. Obviously she needs to be fostered out...not sent back to that destructive environment.

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